3 Things We All Need To Feel Alive At Work

I Read It So You Don’t Have To: Alive At Work

When are you at your best?

Chances are it is when you are able to use your strengths, experiment, play, and have a sense of purpose.

Daniel Cable tells us all about feeling alive and the conditions necessary for that in his book Alive At Work.

I have read it — and I want to share what I learned from it — so you don’t have to read it.

Key lessons:

• We all need 3 things to feel alive at work: to use our strengths as much as we can, to be able to experiment and learn, and to have a feeling of purpose and meaning.
• Lack of engagement isn’t a motivation problem. It’s a biological one.
• Do more of what you do best.
• Learning goals are more effective than setting performance targets.
• Purpose can only be felt.

Scroll all the way down if you’re a doer rather than a reader for some actionable advice and exercises you can do as an employee, leader, or HR professional.

#1 — Lack of engagement isn’t a motivational problem. It’s a biological one.

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